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Daily Devotional:
We Are Meaning-seeking Creatures
In a recent interview with Bill Moyers, the British theologian Karen Armstrong described humankind as "meaning-seeking creatures," adding that, "soon after we stopped living in trees, as homo sapiens brains and bodies differentiated themselves from the other primates, we started making works of art and trying to define our relationship with the divine through religion." She spoke of language, art, and spirituality as necessary parts of our life as a species, and of the impact of this on our family groups and societies. In religion, art, and societal activities, we find many ways of sharing our meaning-seeking.
As Desmond Tutu relates, "human beings will strive after freedom, for we know inside ourselves that we are made for the transcendent; it's the very essence of being human -- knowing that my humanity is caught up in your humanity. We need other human beings in order to be human. We are made for togetherness; we are made for family, for fellowship, to exist in a tender network of interdependence."
Art, and family, and the divine-seeking, are all components that make up the meaning of this experience, indeed, the driving force of life is to connect to our humanity and our divinity, and we will want to use languages and art to share these expressions with any other meaning-seeking creatures we meet.
Daily Devotional:
We Are Meaning-seeking Creatures
In a recent interview with Bill Moyers, the British theologian Karen Armstrong described humankind as "meaning-seeking creatures," adding that, "soon after we stopped living in trees, as homo sapiens brains and bodies differentiated themselves from the other primates, we started making works of art and trying to define our relationship with the divine through religion." She spoke of language, art, and spirituality as necessary parts of our life as a species, and of the impact of this on our family groups and societies. In religion, art, and societal activities, we find many ways of sharing our meaning-seeking.
As Desmond Tutu relates, "human beings will strive after freedom, for we know inside ourselves that we are made for the transcendent; it's the very essence of being human -- knowing that my humanity is caught up in your humanity. We need other human beings in order to be human. We are made for togetherness; we are made for family, for fellowship, to exist in a tender network of interdependence."
Art, and family, and the divine-seeking, are all components that make up the meaning of this experience, indeed, the driving force of life is to connect to our humanity and our divinity, and we will want to use languages and art to share these expressions with any other meaning-seeking creatures we meet.
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